• Brittany (probably)

Saint-Thierry of Rheims?

• Historiography
• Theology

• Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi (acephalous) (49r-78r)
• Excerpts from Gildas, De excidio Britanniae, inc. Gildasius arguens principes ait (78r-79v).

• Probably written in Brittany

Bischoff (Kat. §5291) had no hesitations in ascribing this codicological unit to Brittany (indeed, note the occasional use of some insular abbreviations, e.g. enim at fol. 53r, second and bottom line; Tironian et at fol. 59r, third line from the bottom, etc.). In view of the popularity of both Julian of Toledo's Prognosticon and Gildas in Early Medieval Brittany, this localisation seems highly plausible. It is worth noting that the interesting assemblage of excerpts from Gildas's De excidio Britanniae occurring at fols 78r-79v constitutes a sort of brief speculum principum, especially concerned with bad kings—an assessment supported by the incipit of this compilation: Gildasius arguens principes ait. The script on fol. 79v is somewhat effaced, suggesting that this MS was loosely bound in quaternionibus for a long period of time.

CCfr; Davies 1968: 147 (n. 73); Larpi 2011; PMSB 316 (§102; the shelfmark is here wrongly indicated as '144'); Smith 1992: 167 (n. 82).

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